Down Memory Lane

Down memory lane

Remember the days of yore
When we marched, waving the flag
Green, white and green fluttering in the air
We deemed the sky our limit
We were future leaders of tomorrow
We were the giant of Africa
The oil boomed our immense wealth
Intensifying and typifying our hopes for a better tomorrow

Forty and more years later
We have marched two steps forward
And regressed five steps backward
Unlike wine, we failed to mature with age
Or learnt from our mistakes
Failing to adopt measures for the betterment
And progress of our once young nation

But what became of us as a nation?
What became of as a people?

A massive exodus of the populace
To lands afar in search of greener pastures
Or in frustrated defiance and away from
A land where leaders siphon millions while thousands starve
Yet sleep through the night undeterred by conscience
While kids starve and education is shoddy
Where few of the youth are decadence prone
Resorting to scams in the name of smart
Where reputation both home and abroad
Has sunk beneath reprehensible
As the rich get richer daily while the poor get poorer
For while the monkey toils, only the baboon chops
We once proclaimed our heritage with pride
But now almost scurry with head hung in shame
For fear of judgment and recrimination
The bad apples have completely spoilt the good
Whither our future?
Whither lays our fate?
When and how shall we mend?

The center and the grassroots are fallen apart
Shattered into pieces like a broken china cup

Who will pick the pieces?
Which generation shall mend us?

We are beating a hollow drum
And dancing the music of the dead
We mourn a live nation and
State lost in the wilderness
We ignored the sense of reason
That had shone like floodlight
And only the blind could have missed

We are a nation failed by its leaders
And culpable by our deeds
We chose to be blind when we could see
And deaf when we could hear
Until irreparable damages were done

We still have a chance at greatness
And resources to mend fences
We have the fortitude and resilience for a comeback
If only responsibility is adopted by every single one
Morality taught to plebs and priorities put in place

We can still be the Nigeria, the nation that we once hailed

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